Health & Fitness · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Curves Franchise
A Curves International brand operating in the health & fitness sector, franchising since 1995. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Curves, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $37K – $77K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 2,500
- Total locations · Large network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry curves Curves
Curves needs $37K–$77K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical health & fitness franchise.
- LO $37K
- HI $77K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 2,500
- I19 Silent
- INV# #203/223
- UNT# #49/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Burn Boot Camp ($152K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Curves (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Curves's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -2.0% net unit growth (YoY) 0/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Curves's investment ranks nationally
Curves's listed Item 7 low of $37K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Curves vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$37,000 Among the lowest lower than 93% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
100 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Health & Fitness
- Subsector
- gym
- Founded
- 1992
- Franchising Since
- 1995
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Curves
This Curves page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Curves.
National footprint registry read for Curves
Signature read: 2,500 locations · Item 7 low $37K
Curves, a Curves International franchise, has been franchising since 1995 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 1992 , currently with 2,500 total locations (2,500 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the health & fitness sector, headquartered in TX. The registry records a total initial investment between $37K and $77K, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 5.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties. Curves has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry. Item 19 disclosure is optional under the FTC Franchise Rule.
Unit count is trending down for Curves: a 2.0% net contraction year-over-year with 100 closures on the record. The registry does not attribute the change to a cause or establish an operating or financial outcome.
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Related reading for Curves: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Curves has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Curves's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Curves , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($37K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,500 here).
What to do with this
Curves at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Curves scores 0/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $37K – $77K entry cost runs below the typical health & fitness franchise.
- Ranks #203 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Burn Boot Camp sits at a comparable investment level ($152K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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